so like his; with such scornful glance when I laugh and jest with those hateful redcoats, such kindly smile when I showed you that I am at heart a patriot.

"Not that he has such an idea, mind you; he loves to dance and jest with me, as a score of others do.

"I only meant," pleaded Mr. Clarkson, "that an obsolescent jest is, like middle-age, occasionally vapid, possessing neither the interest of antiquity nor the freshness of surprise.

" "Old Rowley is in no humour for a jest to-day, my lord," replied Chiffinch, familiarly.

"Another such jest, my lord," rejoined the king, sternly, "and it shall cost you your liberty.

Straight for a priest the mother sent, Who, when he understood the jest, With what he saw was well content.

The gentleman is surely pleas'd to jest!

MEPHISTOPHELES With ladies one should ne'er presume to jest.

Me every scurvy knave may twit, With stinging jest and taunting sneer!

To search by day, that were a jest; 'Tis darkness that doth harbor mysteries.

Twas no jest!

Very few were killed, and it became a kind of rude jest to call each section of the range, not by the cattle brand, but by the Grizzly that was quartered on its stock.

When I seen him set up there like a butte and swat horses like they was flies, I jest loved him.

If a joke goes round, it shall be of an elder coinage than Joe Miller's, as old as Lord Bacon's collection, or as the jest-book that Master Slender asked for when he lacked small-talk for sweet Anne Page.

" She laughed, a little hysterically, but McGuire treated the mirth as a compliment to his jest and joined in with a tremendous guffaw.

So in the Introduction to "The Tale of a Tub," he, half in jest and half in earnest, declares that "wisdom is like a cheese, whereof to a judicious taste the maggots are the best."

Pope wrote to him, "to beg it of him, as a piece of mercy, that he would not laugh at his gravity, but permit him to wear the beard of a philosopher until he pulled it off and made a jest of it himself."

You've got guns, an' we've got jest as much right ter carry 'em as you have.

At all events, the public ferment had risen, as I say, to a pitch of positive fever; and as to the Boreal in particular, the daily progress of her preparations was minutely discussed in the newspapers, everyone was an authority on her fitting, and she was in every mouth a bet, a hope, a jest, or a sneer: for now, at last, it was felt that success was probable.

Still, if anything did happen to him, you know, it is you I should come straight to, Adam Jeffson.' 'Clark, you jest,' I said: 'I know really very little of astronomy, or magnetic phenomena.

I said, 'believe me, you jest in a manner which does not please me.' 'Do I really?'

But, thank Heaven, it is only a jest.

It would be a good jest indeed, if I were to forgive the insolence of my own creature at the desire of a man like you that has been my perpetual plague.

They dealt in allegorical and figurative personages, expounded wise saws and moral lessons, and squared rather with the careful self-concern of the newly established Protestantism than with the frank and joyous jest in life which was more characteristic of the time.

Pray dont jest about it.